urban renewal
A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance,…A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
Stadtsanierung
(countable)A specific instance in which this process is used.
- the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums
Examples
3 sentencesUrban renewal is another way of saying gentrification.
The urban-renewal project is now well under way.
Fuck urban renewal.
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Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
plural: urban renewals| Singular | urban renewal |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsWord family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.